In the next month two weeks you will read post after post about OMG BlogHer I Can’t Wait To Go! or Damn BlogHer I Hate Those People Why Can’t They Shut Up About It? You will read tips on how to interpret apparent standoffishness as shyness, snobbery as insecurity, hilarity as drunkenness. You will read…
Category: Blogging
Why I Rid Myself of Disqus and NetworkedBlogs
I noticed a little glitch as I was sending out yesterday’s post about my mom’s visit. When I clicked on the link to my post as it appeared in NetworkedBlogs, my Disqus commenting system wouldn’t load. NetworkedBlogs keeps readers inside their own link when they read your page, instead of just sending the reader to…
Why I Won’t Be Hosting HomeHer ’11.
Last year a pretty insane thing happened: I cracked a couple of jokes about a fake conference I was attending, called HomeHer10, and bam! Soon, thousands of tweets, dozens of blog posts, at least two videos, and even several impromptu sponsors later, and I was exhausted from laughing for three days straight. I had way…